[The Raven]

From today's WSJ--an article from a prof at my local university

To be clear, if you're using this event to criticize the "rhetoric" of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you're either: (a) asserting a connection between the "rhetoric" and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you're not, in which case you're just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it?

The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel / Glenn Reynolds

[The Raven]

>>you're just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible

Contemptible is really a good word for this---as it has moved the news from what actually happend to this contemptible political agenda

And there is more coming